K6EVR
This fortunate fellow had a 75A-4 receiver, a Gonset GSB-100 all mode transmitter (100 watts), and two racks full of power amps. A wall of gear, here. |
K4UUO
That's an HQ140 receiver in the middle of the rack and a Heathkit DX100 transmitter just to its left. The unit above the transmitter is probably a homebrew amp. This was apparently an AM-only station. I like the wrap-around "wall of cool stuff" effect. |
Those Army guys got all the cool toys!
These fellas have five (count 'em - five!) R390A's to play with. It ain't fair. My dad's tax money paid for that stuff, of course. This was an Army listening post, not a ham station. |
Want to run 40 KW?
I wonder how many hams saw these TMC commercial transmitters advertised in QST and thought - at least fleetingly - about having one? |
W2EQS
I always admired clean and neat shacks like this one. Mine usually had wire and parts and various pieces of gear being repaired and "stuff" laying all around. Don't let that clean look fool you though. This was a serious station with an NC303 receiver, HT32B transmitter and a kilowatt amp, which is neatly hidden in that desk - it's a Johnson "Desk Kilowatt". All pretty cool stuff, and it worked on sideband too. Charlie O'Brien was an active contester who also held the calls W9NFC and FP8AS. He was licensed in 1932 at the age of 16. He is known to have operated from St. Pierre & Miquelon as well as Curacao. Charlie served in the Signal Corp at Fort Monmouth, NJ during WWII. He was so well known that his call was retired when he became a silent key. Today, his daughter Beverly has a son with a keen interest in all of his grandfather's Ham Radio memorabelia. He certainly has a right to be proud of his grandad! |
K2DGT |
